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" WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 230
1809
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous ...

George Grant - 1849 - 318 pages
...mentions that when he wrote Ms treatise about our system, namely, the Third Book of the Prlacipia, "he had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief rf a deity, and he expressed his happiness that it has Ifea found useful for that purpose. In answering...
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Lives of Northern Worthies: Andrew Marvell. Dr. Richard Bentley. Thomas lord ...

Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 pages
...genius for which the world gave him credit ; he says, " when I wrote my treatise about our system, 1 had an eye upon such principles as might work with...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 2

David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...him, that when he wrote his treatise about our system, viz., the Third Book of the Principia, " he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity," and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose. " But if I have done." he...
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Christianum Organum: Or, The Inductive Method in Scripture and Science

Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...much indebted. In one of these Newton says that when he wrote the third book of the ' Principia' ' lie had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity.' On one occasion, in 1714, having dined with M. Deslandes, author of ' A Critical History of Philosophy,'...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 28

Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 pages
...1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing the Third Book of the Principia, ' he ! he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose.' The modesty of this great...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 28

1878 - 1074 pages
...1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing the Third Book of the Principia, ' he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity, and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose.' The modesty of this great...
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Sunday Afternoon, Volume 3

1879 - 912 pages
...assistance. In reply Newton returned the celebrated four Bentley letters which begin with these words ; " When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service this way, it is due to nothing...
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Elementary algebra: with brief notices of its history

Robert Potts - 1879 - 672 pages
...At the beginning of a letter of Newton to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing...
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Elementary algebra, with brief notices of its history

Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 pages
...At the beginning of a letter of Newton to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon...Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if 1 have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing...
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Christianity Judged by Its Fruits

Charles Croslegh - 1884 - 212 pages
...to Dr. Bentley in 1692, Neuiton says, that, when he wrote the third book of the " Principia," he " had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity." He is truly described in the epitaph in the Abbey :— " Naturse, antiquitatis, S. Scripturse Sedulus,...
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